Follow The Iowa Caucuses Live
The buck stops here and the votes begin: starting at 7 pm CST, more than 100,000 voters - only a small percentage of the state's electorate - are expected to gather across the state at more than 800 public spots, and cast their votes for their GOP candidate with only three: Paul, Romney and for some unknown reason, Santorum expected to have a fighting changes. Results should begin coming in within a few hours. For those following the caucus for the only important reason: to see how Ron Paul does, or is allowed to do, we have the following live feeds for our readers' disposal.
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Live results can be seen here as they trickle in:
And some more on the Iowa caucus from Reuters as the GOP primary kicks off officially:
Republican candidates crisscrossed Iowa in a last-minute bid for support on Tuesday ahead of the first contest of the 2012 U.S. presidential campaign, and at least three - Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Ron Paul - appeared to have a shot at victory.
Iowa's caucuses are known more for weeding out candidates than picking the future president. Finishing in the top spot Tuesday night could provide a big boost in the state-by-state battle to select a Republican challenger to Democratic President Barack Obama in the Nov. 6 election.
Most of the candidates have topped opinion polls at one point in the volatile Republican race that until recently centered on televised debates rather than on-the-ground campaigning.
Polls show Romney, the favorite of the party's business wing, in a tight race with Paul, a U.S. congressman from Texas with libertarian views, and Santorum, a former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania who hopes to consolidate Iowa's large bloc of Christian conservatives. Romney is a former Massachusetts governor.
Many voters remain undecided. The unusual caucus process adds an element of unpredictability. Voters in Iowa gather in public meetings at hundreds of sites around the state such as schools, libraries and churches, listening to speeches touting the various candidates before casting their ballots.
"I'm kind of on the fence. A name that's been kind of sticking out, along with everyone, is Rick Santorum. We're not a hundred percent for sure yet," Des Moines resident Jason Harpineau said just hours before the start of the caucuses.
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Sparsely populated Iowa only yields 28 delegates of the 1,143 needed to lock up the Republican presidential nomination, and those delegates aren't actually awarded for months after Tuesday's caucuses.
Santorum hopes to emerge as the latest conservative alternative to Romney.
Largely consigned to the margins for most of the race, Santorum is now fending off attacks from his rivals who see him as a new threat. On Tuesday, he said Paul was behind a wave of automated phone calls that question his anti-abortion and pro-gun credentials.
"Ron Paul is disgusting," Santorum told Fox News reporters.
A win by Paul would help him extend his minimal-government stance and broaden the appeal of his campaign outside his zealous base, many of them independents, disaffected Democrats and younger voters.
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Game time, bitchez!
Cock-us-es bitchez!
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Ron Paul 2012. Change you can believe in.
Ron Paul's people will show up in force, and they aren't going anywhere until their votes are counted. He's not just going to win - it's going to be a Roman triumph.
what does the polling look like? Statistical dead-heat between Mormney and RP
Isn't there a hanging chad-like scenario in Ron Paul's future? Why should we believe this time will be a free and fair election? Everything up to this point has demonstrated that the status quo will not tolerate a candidate that will challenge their supremacy. I love RP, I just think the deck is stacked. just sayin.
This is why watchthevote2012 is monitoring the caucas. Check out their facebook pages, where people are going to post their local/county results (which are publicly displayed there) so we can compare them to the "official" totals later. If they cheat, we'll at least know they did.
last week the rnc said they would be taking the votes to a "secret location" to tabulate - more hanging chads...
<-- Santorum is the world's biggest douchebag
<-- Santorum is just a regular-sized douchebag
COME ON IOWA! MAKE US PROUD.
just watched "ron paul grassroot energy" kicks ass.....painting my garage door tommorow
Ron Paul!
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The more these Main Stream Media talking heads move their stupid lips, the more apparent it becomes that Ron Paul is America's last chance. These hand puppets of the establishment are desperate to discredit Paul (he's unelectable, he's the vote of the disenchanted, he cant beat Obama).
Dear America; Ron Paul is indeed a returning founding father and is your last chance. If you continue to mindlessly support the agents of your destroyers (lobbyists, financial elite), you are locking your own manacles and your blood is on your own hands.
Worried about jobs? Don't vote Romney.
"Romney Held Responsible
Employees who lost jobs at Bain-controlled companies more than a decade ago say they still hold Romney responsible.
“I would not vote for him for anything,” said Phyllis Detro, 68, who lost her job at a Bain-owned office paper products factory in Marion, Indiana, closed in 1995. “I’d like to see the jobs that he’s created. He has taken away jobs.”
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-20/romney-as-job-creator-clashes-w...
Paul as president? Get real. The game is rigged. What is it going to take to convince everyone otherwise? I guess the last 10 years of the fraud frenzy has proven nothing in the minds of most. How fucking sad.
Rick Santorum now winning...Paul down 4% with 88% in. RP goes to 3rd and this would be considered a disaster
Santorum is just the useful idiot of the month. Romney will take all the eastern states. Game, set, and match. Surprise... surprise...
Santorum is a piece of fuck...Mormney shows well even though Carville savages him for lookin weak.
RP in 3rd place is a disaster...say goodbye
RP getting 3rd is just the logical conclusion. The disaster is that we all live in an oligarchy and few are willing to admit it. Most American men are cowards strutting around like they're alpha males. If they actually admitted they were slaves, their ego would require them to do something about it. Not surprisingly, they don't admit it. Speaking in terms of evolution, it's easier to fool the women into believing you're brave (less risk), instead of proving it.
Bullshit. It's not a disaster. Rand looked pissed, wonder what story is. Obama knows a Paul Obama race means Obama loses, so maybe he runs some Dems to vote Romney. LOL. Remember never underestimate effort of status quo to make Paul lose. We expect it and have to fight against it.
Santorum (WTF?!?) vs. Barry O.
WE ARE FUCKED!
Everything is RIGGED, top to bottom!
For a bunch of people who saw the great 2000 lie, the great 2004 lie, the even greater 2008 lie....
why so much energy in this? politics is a drain of time and money at this point. Good time and good money they want to suck from everyone.
Watch it like a TV show, it'll change nothing. When Palin comes to power in 2012, riding on the coat-tails of the Terminator, we'll look back at this Cock-us and say "Shafted", eh?
;-)
ori
/2012-the-year-of-anomaly/
As much as I don't respect ORI (and I don't respect him quite a bit), it does seem that this election cannot save the former USA. We've got over 40 million Mexicans here. Game over. Reboot.
In addition, it seems that the time for sound money was decades ago, before we crested the debt mountain. Is sound money a good answer when it means paying off 15, 17, 20 trillion in debt with gold? I don't know, but perhaps blowing up the debt is the lowest cost option.
That said, I'll vote for Paul because the rest are authentic traitors.
Nothing wrong with Mexicans, the problem is the welfare-warfare state.
I've seen California go from a Beach Boys paradise to a metastasized outgrowth of Tijuana. Don't tell me there's nothing wrong with the Mexican invasion. "Wherever there is a Mexican, there is Mexico."
Parallels with Detroit. Btw, is that a million dollar gold chain, or a ten cent piece of rope?
From my own experience the only thing good about Mexicans is Mexican Women...until they are 25 anyway and then it's pear city. My town was destroyed by illegals so I consider myself somewhat of an expert on this topic. As the OP said: Game over, reboot.
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Yes, but why do you think California drew these TYPES of Mexicans? Or did you think that everyone in Mexico is like that?
He is probably the scariest of the bunch! Fundies drive me batty.
pods
The game can be rigged both ways. The loser doesn't even know he's dead... until the winner comes calling.
new rule....you cant be named candy and look like candy crowley..
Candy wants to give you a handy.
RON PAUL 2016!
I used to think that Crowley was a savvy political analyst until I saw her present completely false polling results regarding Ron Paul's viability against Obama. Now I know she's just a shill who thinks that I'm too stupid to know when she's lying. Now that's unattractive.
I hear she ate most of the pro-Ron Paul votes --- and it shows.
Savor the flavor akak.
You and Ron Paul better enjoy this night, because without this hick state of Iowa inbreds, Ron Paul will suck out loud from here on.
Let's see how Paul does in S.C. and Florida as the other contenders drop out.
Hint----as the contenders drop out, their supporters will NOT get behind your misguided mumble-mouth Savior. All the base will converge behind Gingrich or Romney.
Tough shit. Give up. You are pissing in the wind.
Ron Paul has NO chance.
Don't watch CNN. Political coverage sucks. Fox sucks less.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/elections/2012/iowa-caucus-jan-3
christ, i wish you have told me that before i bought all this paint.....asshole
Maybe you could do us all a big favor and blow your fuckan head off? I've seen some pathetic posters here but you take the cake loser.
Smokey the Pole.
And how many front teeth do you have?
Fuckhead
Paul cites 'shenanigans' with loaned gold | Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TSxm2V8aVQ&feature=player_embedded#
<-- Bachmann: "Hitler was 'soft on defense' ".
<-- Bachmann falls to sleep counting dead, nuclear-incinerated Muslim babies.
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Visualize Gaza
Free Gaza
http://www.freegaza.org/
truly shocking that in this day and age a situation like gaza can go on, year after year... ignored by artists and politicians alike. Free Gaza indeed. and free Iran, and free the rest of us as well.
Sorry, I had to vote Santorum a regular-sized douchebag only because I was saving world's biggest for Newtbama.
And owl worship, ritual sex and sacrifical will follow...
Let me fix this for you:
They said they were taking the votes to a secret location to make sure Ron Paul doesn't win.
...there... fixed.
One of the cornerstones of the Republican party is Pat Robertson, an evangelical christian with over 1M conservative christians who follow him. He announced today that God told him who the next president would be, but he's "not allowed to talk about it."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNhrNqS0lyE
Just the fact that Santorum, Romney and Ron Paul are running neck and neck in Iowa demonstrates how UTTERLY FUCKED UP the Republican party is these days. It's a photo finish between the Bible Thumpers who want to launch a holy war against Iran, Mitt "Cardboard Cutout Republican" Romney and RP, who wants to crash the entire system.
*LOL*
Republicans are HILARIOUS!
Repugnicants?
Duh.
well, robertson may be a loon, but he predicts America will be torn apart from within over a financial breakdown - and the Lord says it's not His will, but just something the people brought on themselves. I doubt many ZHers can argue with the crux of his prediction (going WAY out there on a limb, eh, Pat? lol) -- as to his call for prayer...whatever. But I guess it can't hurt - that is, as long as you listen for the jack-booted thugs knocking at your door while in prayer, and have your guns handy just in case...
Never seen a worse "victory" speech than that of Mitt Romney's tonight - insincere, hollow, rushed, cold and unlikable.... in other words, perfectly fitting for a cardboard cutout charlatan full of empty rhetoric and overplayed cliches, straight from the workshop of the American Plutocracy. I fucking hate everything about Santorum, but at least the guy's speech was sincere tonight. It was personable, warm and thoughtful. You could sense how amazingly grateful (and surprised) he was after months and months of shaking hands and knocking on doors. Romney, on the other hand, was cold and mechanical, as if this speech is yet another obligation in his long, assured run for the nomination.
There has never been a bigger need for a third party candidate in American history, EVER. Too bad the Tea Party imploded chasing red herrings like birth certificates, death panels and Hitler analogies. There really was something meaningful there, but it got over-run by Sarah Palin/Glenn Beck-style lunacy.
"And by the way, we are going to have to, if you're very old, we're not going to give you all that technology and all those drugs for the last couple of years of your life to keep you maybe going for another couple of months. It's too expensive. So we're going to let you die." -- Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton and Obama adviser.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT7Y0TOBuG4
Oh btw CNN's election center is reporting Santorum in the head on their main page...but according to the tally of all counties, it's actually Ron Paul. Probably a temporary glitch but I thought I'd note it. Funny how glitches always seem to favor establishment candidates though...
note: glitches not good for BiCheZ!
Snitches on glitches get stitches, Bitchez!
Or get to reside in Gitmo.
The indignity of watching the idiot Iowianians decide my future is appauling. Santorum is a neo Hitler war moger and Romney is a bank whore. Good job you bunch of asshole farmers. Paul or Huntsman would have been the better choices. Is this system totally rigged or what.
That's what I'm worried about they tried painting him as a racist and it failed...What's next? Raping a cleaning lady. A swanky hotel? Or a bullet in the head on the motorcade route....
Good luck RP
Or my favorite, dropping your towel in front of a hotel cleaning lady and telling her to blow you. Inventing the internet and fighting global warming sure makes one horny at inappropriate times.
RP has a leg up if they try that angle on him, who is going to believe he had a rocking wood going at what 70 plus? The targeteer's will have to find another way to discredit Mr. Paul if they can. Wood under towel won't work even on the weakest hand's.
I'm not being rude here either, this is what I thought when I viewed post this week that he won't be elected because he is in his 70's.
FYI, Fox is now showing Mr. Paul in the lead!!!
They'll think of something to smudge him.
Somebody will leak a "story" to Dick Morris who will write that Ron Paul is gay, complete with iphone naked tweet pictures to his boyfriends who hope to smoke their legal pot and are also racists and skinheads hellbent on ruining our awesome economics/foreign policy/war on drugs grand slams.
Or re-air a re-cut Borat "interview."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7RnlPQCKBQ
LMAO
i'm going with a really fast cancer: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/29/us-venezuela-usa-cancer-idUSTR...
Entrance polls just put Ron Paul ahead.
Also, Obama got a 6 point jump from the pre-caucus polls in '08, based on a strong showing of young voters.
UPDATE: Ron Paul ahead in final entrance polling.
Nascent, where did you see the results? Everywhere I checked they just kept saying "it's a three man race." Probably because they don't at all want to say "Paul in the lead; we are all idiots."
CNN is reporting it. Everyone else seems to be lagging behind them. They announced on air that he was ahead of Romney 24-23 with Santorum at 19.
http://www.cnn.com/election/2012/primaries/epolls/ia?hpt=hp_t1
Thanks. Hopefully they're right for once. I can't bring myself to actually turn on the tv and watch... *shudder* ...MSM news, but I'm keeping a constant eye online.
They just announced a new "wave" of entrance polling (after they announced the other numbers as final), putting Santorum at 23%. Paul is still ahead at 24.
Santorum is "MC" D'Bag, and Romney is DJ Jazzy Jerkoff
Santorum is the worst candidate out there. He combines all the worst elements of a big-spending, war-mongering neocon with an empty suit douchebag.
Romney is the quintessential empty suit. He's the Republican John Kerry.
but without the personal courage of his youth. though more photogenic.
You mean he didn't ride a plastic boat in Vietnam and take credit for something valorous he didn't do?
BREAKING NEWS: MSM faggotry strikes again. A veteran Ron Paul supporter said that we need to end the wars, and that we don't need to start new ones. Israel is more than capable of handling Ira...
Wolf Blitzer: Oops. We lost the feed. "Experts", tell me more about Ron Paul not being electable.
Just f-ing happened.
Hory Mory.. please tell me that someone has a youtube of that or will ...
Ministry of Truth at its finest.
Dana Bash was reporting from the Ron Paul headquarters and talking to a veteran in uniform. He served two tours in Afghanistan and is about to deploy for a third. That's exactly what happened. I just saw it.
Then, the precincts, which were coming in at lightning speed all night, quit reporting for a long time. When they started reporting again, Santorum took the lead, and Ron Paul is now behind by a thousand votes and counting. The fix is in, ladies and gentlemen. God help us all.
Here you go:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TSxm2V8aVQ&feature=player_embedded
just wow...
And then during his speech Ron Paul brought the soldier on stage to complete his comments.
Isn't it funny that the feed goes out when something important is being said/taking place?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7SwOT29gbc
BTW, the Solomon Building, WTC 7, is the square one over her left shoulder. That's still standing.
Santorum is the media's McCain for 2012.
"It is not the votes that count, but who counts the votes." Josef StalinAnd every night Michael Weenie calls Wolf Blitzer anti-israel! What a con man that Michael Weenie is!
I'm glad I went to a movie tonight. I'm so fucking furious right now. How are we expected to believe those 29K Santorum vote? He shits the bed huge in Iowa straw poll, but somehow comes out of fucking nowhere and gets 25%?
In monumentally corrupt times, perhaps I was naive to expect honest vote counting. That CNN video is just more evidence of the Zionist whore lobby machine that treats our soldiers like cannon fodder, and our currency like ass paper.
"Oh I'm sorry. You served in war time going on ten years, and you mention Israel on Israeli owned media??? Cut to commercial!"
At this point I need to put the laptop down before I throw it through the fucking window.